Subject: Re: NUTS! Path: lobby!newstf02.news.aol.com!portc05.blue.aol.com!gw12.bcandid.com.MISMATCH!gw22.nn.bcandid.com!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!uunet!ffx.uu.net!alpha.sky.net!johnjr Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 From: jmholmes@swbell.net (John) References: <389109CA.E68B9DBD@dcnet2000.com> <20000128131232.20971.00000180@ng-cg1.aol.com> <389282D3.7FCD59FD@dcnet2000.com> <3892831e.7188691@news> <3894ABA7.7CB69A0F@dcnet2000.com> <3894BB58.22AC6EBE@plane.nl> <389556E7.A271DCC3@swbell.net> <38962f08.24723433@news> X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.01 Lines: 44 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 02:44:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.188.201.129 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sky.net X-Trace: alpha.sky.net 949372906 208.188.201.129 (Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:41:46 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:41:46 CDT Organization: SkyNET Corporation Actually the best approach might be to get some of these folks designing web pages to actually take a look at the crap they are putting out there... I still perfer the lynx approach to displaying the page as text and if one wants to actually view the "cutesy" stuff a webmaster feels is necessary to put on a web page to have the option of downloading it. I, for one, could do without all of this animated gif crap, or these progressive jpg files displayed on a page and REALLY could do without the JAVA or any of it's related forms... When I go to view a web page, I am simply looking (for the most part) for information. Even though the saying goes "A picture is worth a thousand words" there are a VERY LARGE number of webmasters that need to take a second look at the pictures that they are using to convey these words... In article <38962f08.24723433@news>, CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) wrote: >On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 03:33:27 -0600, Rubywand >wrote: > >>For example, the best machine for accessing the internet is probably a >>modern PC or Mac. The IIgs currently lacks the speed, memory, and >>display required for decent internet access. > >I disagree. The IIgs is more than capable of accessing the internet. > >If you start talking about accessing web sites with lots of graphics, >java applets, plug-in content etc., then you would be right but the >web is not the internet. > >E-mail, newsgroups, telnet, ftp, irc, many web pages and other >services on the internet simply deal with 7 or 8 bit data. Nothing a >IIgs can't handle. > >By the way, I do believe a graphical web browser would be possible on >an accelerated IIgs. However, at present it would require a fair bit >of playing around with text edit controls. Personally, it would make >writing a better web browser much easier if the TextEdit tool set was >updated to at least support multiple rulers. > >+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro on Delphi | >| Delphi Apple II Forums Web Pages | >| A2: http://www.delphi.com/apple2 A2Pro: http://www.delphi.com/a2pro | >+------------------------------------------------------------------------+